Week 13: Clustering

Lecture notes:
Clustering
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/01/19/73910_04TCstratus_1.html Article on the Stratus ftServer W Series 4300; an example of a fault-tolerant architecture offering hot failover.

Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) home

Load-Balancing Internet Servers, IBM International Technical Support Organization, December 1997

Buzzwords:
fault tolerance, cluster, single system image, availability, failover, cold/warm/hot failover, multi-directional failover, cascading failover, RAID, shared disk, shared nothing, heartbeat, load balancing.